The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

Make youself necessary to someone.

The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.